Love's Redeeming Work Is Done

Submitted by Rick.Wheeler on Wed, 2010/09/15 - 5:31pm
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ID: 
188
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Book: 
Other
Composition Date: 
1740
Composer: 
Foundery Collection (active 1739-1786)
Arrangers / Editors: 
Wheeler, Richard W. (1967- )
Proper Liturgical Usage: 
Additional Music at Mass
Processional
Recessional
Proper Liturgical Time: 
The Full Year
Proper Liturgical Day: 
Any
Votive: 
F
Performance Time: 
2 min
Composition Type: 
Hymn
Texture: 
Homophonic
Voices: 
SATB
Language: 
Modern English
Difficulty: 
Easy
Musical Style: 
Modern Hymnody
Lyrics: 

Love's redeeming work is done, fought the fight, the battle won. Lo, our Sun's eclipse is o'er! Lo, he sets in blood no more!

Vain the stone, the watch, the seal! Christ has burst the gates of hell; death in vain forbids him rise; Christ has opened paradise.

Lives again our victorious King; where, O death, is now thy sting? Dying once, he all doth save; where thy victory, O grave?

Soar we now where Christ has led, following out exalted Head; made like him, like him we rise, ours the cross, the grave, the skies.

Hail the Lord of earth and heaven! Praise to thee by both be given: thee we greet triumphant now; hail, the Resurrection thou!